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Thursday, 26 April 2012

Marbled Chocolate Crumble Cake

This month Dom from Belleau Kitchen is celebrating 2 years as a blogger and has great plans for world domination :) To celebrate, the random recipe challenge is to bake something which of course I won't say no to being the self confessed baking addict that I am! So I put all my baking books in a pile as instructed and counted them. I then used a random number generator and came up with 12 which was.....

I've only baked a few recipes from this book since I bought it so I was really pleased for a chance to bake something else. I opened it up to a random page which was 146... marbled chocolate crumble cake. Hurrah! In the past (most notably macarons) I have picked fairly challenging recipes for random recipes so I was grinning like a cheshire cat when I saw this. A simple recipe which looked great! Coincidentally, I had a last minute invitation to dinner so I brought this cake as dessert. The verdict - delicious! It's a vanilla and chocolate sponge with a twist. I really liked the hidden chunks of chocolate and the crumble topping. It would be great served with cream or ice cream but just as good on its own.

Make crumble topping - butter, sugar, flour, cocoa powder

add the batter in blobs..

.. swirl it gently to create a marble effect

How pretty is that? I was worried my pan was too large but the cake expanded nicely.

I do love a marble cake and know this one is a good one! I love the picture of it raw with the chocolate blobs!! I think I need to try a couple if tray bake type cakes soon too. They always look so 'vintage'. Thanks so much for taking part and celebrating my 2nd blogaversary with me. X

This looks great and I love your idea of the random page choice! Really must buy the book as I always look out for Dan Lepard's recipes in the Guardian magazine. Great pictures too - I shall refer to them when I've got my own copy of the book!

Marbled cake is always so much better than just one flavor of cake - and I've heard good things about Dan Lepard's cookbooks, although I don't currently own one. I love the crumble topping - just pushes the whole decadence factor!

Hello! I have a couple of awards for you, which involve passing on 5 random facts about yourself :-) You can see what it is here: http://www.carolinemakes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/versatile-blogger-and-sunshine-award.html

Hmm who doesn't love a marble cake, yum! This is a really clever challenge...my recipe books certainly don't see too much action now that my to bake list bookmarks folder has over 400 items on it!! I might just join in next time!

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